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Keep the depth limit 0!

Maybe I fail to understand the limitations on why this can't be done, but personally its driving me up the wall that we have below 0 for depth limit, I do not understand why the existing terrain cannot just be moved up 64 blocks to achieve the same effect while keeping 0 as the depth limit

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    It's a lot easier for the veterans and newer players to understand.
    See it as everything below 0 (it's already in the name) sounds very deep.

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    Imagine moving the terrain up by 64 blocks. Then you'd be standing at 1 point in your old world and when you explore new chunks, the terrain is suddenly 64 blocks above you. If they make it deeper, then they could just create a bedrock wall between the new deep chuncks and the void, and it wouldn't be nearly as intimidating or ugly as having terrain 64 blocks higher than you. Also, it's a really cool effect to have negative Y coordinates. You can now identify that as you go into the negatives, you find the grim looking Deepslate.

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    I would prefer if Sea Level was changed to become 0, and everything gets moved to match it. 

    Either way, I understand the annoyance with 0 being some random layer underground, it's not very intuitive, very random.

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    Changing the coordinates would be a community wide nightmare since now tutorials and memorized locations will all be outdated

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    This would make opening old worlds in 1.17 unnecessarily complicated because you would have to move every old chunk 64 blocks up

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    Amaaya, have you ever read any of the changelogs? In fact, have you ever went underground? The only reason for them to make the world deeper is to create a bigger underground, and you just want them to absolutely destroy that? They lowered the depth to -64 because they wanted to increase the space of the underground from 64 blocks to 128 blocks. There is no other reason for -64 to exist as the new depth. I don't see the "annoyance" you are talking about, since below Y=0 you start seeing Deepslate, so it is very intuitive and has a very interesting effect. At the negative Y levels, the stone becomes harder, darker and has a dungeon-like feel to it, and when you go to negative Y levels you might find the Deep Dark biome.